Bottle-holder for bottle-cleansing machines.



G. M. WAKEFIELD.

BOTTLE HOLDER FOR BOTTLE CLEANSING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED 00128, 1910. I

Patented Feb. 20, 1912.

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BOTTLE HOLDER FOR BOTTLE CLEANSING MACHINES.

APPLICATION FILED 0018,1910;

Q /HJ v A NDORAPH C UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GEORGE M. WAKEFIELD, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, ASSIGNOR TO E. GOLDMAN & 00.,INC., OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

BOTTLE-HOLDER FOR BOTTLE-CLEANSING MACHINES.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed October 8, 1910. Serial No. 585,963.

I '0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE M. NAKE- FIELD, a citizen of the llnitedStates, residing at- Chicago, in the county of Cook and State ofIllinois, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bottle-Holdersfor Bottle-Cleansing Machines, of which the following is aspecification.

Hy invention relates to an improvement in the construction of holderswhich I have devised for use on machines for washing, soaking, rinsingor sterilizing bottles which are exposed in inverted position to themachine-action to cause the bottles to be subjected both internally andexternally to jets of the cleansing-water used. A machine of the typereferred to forms the subject of the pending application of J. T. H.Paul, Serial No. 57 9,47 0, filed August 29, 1910, for use with which Ihave more immediately devised my present improvement. The matter offeeding the bottles to the traveling holders therefor on such a machineis one requiring to be performed so expeditiously that care in seat-ingthem with their neck-portions about the jetting-nozzles can not beexercised to properly center them and at the same time avoid danger offracturing them.

The primary object of my improvement is to provide a construction ofholder which shall render it self-centering to the bottle introducedinto it by guiding the bottle, however carelessly introduced, withoutdanger of fracturing it, to seat its neck about the j etting-nozzle atthe center of the holderbottom.

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 is a broken view in elevation of aset of my improved bottle-holders; Fig. 2 is a plan view of the same;Fig. 3 is a section on line AA, Fig. 1, showing one of the twohalfsections of which each receptacle is formed; Fig. 4: is a section online BB, Fig. 1; and Fig. 5 is a section on line CG, Fig. 1, and showingin addition, a section through the water supply pipe and nozzle.

The receptacle 6 of my improved bottleholder is composed of two similarsections, which may be readily stamped out of sheetmetal. Each section,or half, is formed with a semi-circular upper band 7 of relatively largediameter and a semi-circular lower or neck band 8 of relatively smalldiameter, with interposed ribs 9 connecting the bands and spaced apartto render the holder as open as possible, the ribs bulging outwardlybetween their ends but converging toward their lower ends and thereslightly curving inwardly as at 9 (Fig. 3), where they merge into theband 8 the better to cushion the neck of a bottle dropped in invertedposition into a holder, as hereinafter explained. Perforated ears 10 arebent to extend outwardly from corresponding points of the outer edges ofthe endribs of each receptacle-section, and a tongue 11, of generalL-shape, depends from the neck-band midway between its ends and has itslower arm bent to a right angle to form an car 12 which is perforated.Two of the described sections interfit by abutting at the projectingends of their upper and lower curved bands to form a receptacle, therebyalso causing the cars 10 on corresponding edges of the sections to meet.

It is customary to provide on a machine of the kind referred to a seriesof rows of bottle-holders at suitable intervals along the travelingconveyer for carrying them and arresting the inverted bottles in themsuccessively in registration with spaced jetting stations, each rowextending transversely across the conveyer. For that use the members ofeach row are supported between parallel bars 13, 1 1, as are also thejettingnozzles 15. Each of these nozzles shown has four arms 16extending upwardly and substantially parallel with it from its baseportion, the arms being provided with notches 17 in their upper ends atwhich to engage the lower edges of the lower receptacle-bands; and thearms at one side of each nozzle have perforated ears 18 extending fromthem. The bars are permanently secured together in their parallel spacedrelation as by studs 19, at intervals, surrounded by spacing-sleeves 20.

To assemble the parts forming the equipment for a set or row of theholders, the series of jetting-nozzles are riveted through their ears 18alternately to the opposite inner faces of the bars, and the twosections of each receptacle are riveted through the cars 12 on theirdepending tongues 11 alter- Patented Feb. 20,- 1912.

nately to the same faces of the bars. Thus, by fastening together inparallel relation two bars 18 and 14 with the nozzles and holderpartssecured upon them, the ears 10 on opposite sides of each pair of thereceptacleforming sections are brought together, presenting a series ofalining pairs of the ears on each side of the series of receptacles, andthe ears in each series are connected together by a rod 21 passingthrough them and riveted or otherwise secured at its ends,

(not shown) thereby reinforcing and ren dering rigid the structure. Thenozzles register with the centers of the lower annular necks of thereceptacles formed by the meeting semi-circular bands 8 of each, and theinternal shape of the receptacles causes them to guidingly slide bottlesdropped in inverted condition into their upper, wider open ends towardthe nozzles and center the bottle-necks thereon with precision andwithout any tendency to interference with their progress in self-seatingand to consequent breakage.

What I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

1. A bottle-holder for use in a bottlecleansing machine of the characterdescribed, comprising an open-ended receptacle adapted to receive andsupport a bottle in inverted position and composed of an openwork-bodyhaving a contracted lower end, and a fixed jetting-nozzle registeringcentrally with the lower annular end of said receptacle and of a lengthadapted to enter the neck of a bottle introduced therein, the innersurface of said receptacle forming a guide for self-seating andself-centering the bottle-neck about the nozzle.

2. A bottle-holder for use in bottle-cleansing machines of the characterdescribed, adapted to receive and support a bottle in inverted position,and comprising a receptacle open at both ends and having arelatively-Wide upper part and a relativelynarrow lower part, and afixed jetting-non zle registering centrally with the narrow lower partof said receptacle and of a length adapted to enter the neck of a bottletherein, the inner surface of the receptacle forming, for a bottleintroduced neck-foremost therein, a guide for self-seating andself-centering the bottle-neck about the nozzle.

3. A bottle-holder for use in bottle-cleansing machines of the characterdescribed, comprising a receptacle adapted to receive and support abottle in inverted position and composed of an upper annular band and arelatively-narrow neckband spaced ribs connecting said bands, and afixed jetting-nozzle registering centrally with said neck-band, and of alength adapted to enter the neck of a bottle introduced into thereceptacle, the inner surface of the receptacle forming, for a bottleintroduced neck-foremost therein, a guide for self-seating thebottle-neck about the nozzle.

4. A bottle-holder for use in a bottle- .cleansing machine of thecharacter dea bottle introduced neck-foremost therein,

a guide for self-seating and self-centering the bottle-neck about thenozzle.

5. A bottle-holder for use in bottle-cleansing machines of the characterdescribed,

comprising, in combination with a jettingnozzle, a receptacle composedof meeting sections, each having a semi-circular upper band and asemi-circular and relativelynarrow neck-band with spaced connectingribsconverging toward the neck-band, and means on the sections for securingthem together to form the receptacle with an annular neck-bandconcentric with said nozzle, and an inner guiding-surface for a bottleintroduced neck-foremost into the receptacle for self-seating andself-centering the bottle-neck about the nozzle.

6. A set of bottle-holders for use in bottie-cleansing machines of thecharacter de scribed, comprising a pair of spaced supporting-bars, aseries of nozzles supported on said bars to extend between them, andopen-ended bottle-receptacles each composed of a pair of meetingsections the members of which are secured respectively to the oppositebars to centralize the lower end of each receptacle with a nozzle, saidsections being fastened together, and the inner surfaces of thereceptacles forming, for bottles introduced therein neck-foremost,guides for self-seating and self-centering the bottlenecks about thenozzles.

7. A set of bottle-holders for use in bot tle-cleansing machines of thecharacter described, comprising a pair of spaced supporting bars, aseries of nozzles supported on said bars to extend between them, andopen-ended bottle-receptacles composed of pairs of meeting sections eachconsisting of a semi-circular upper band and a similar but narrowerlower band having a fastening-tongue depending from it, and spacedcurved ribs connecting said bands and perforated ears on the end-ribs,the tongues of the meeting-members being secured, respectively, to theopposite bars with the said ears opposing each other, and ends passingthrough the ears on opposite sides of the self-centering thebottle-necks about the receptacles to secure the sections togethernozzles.

in their receptacle-forming relation With the lower ends of thereceptacles concentric GEORGE WAKEFIELD with the nozzles and their innersurfaces In presence of forming, for bottles introduced therein R. A.RAYMOND,

neck-foreni0st, guides for self-seating and PAULINE BECKMAN.

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